Crossing Over: A Journey of Past and Present. By Scats Esterhuyse, a self-taught artist whose work has been described as being “between the photorealism of John Meyer and the broader impressionism of Walter Meyer”.

Nihilophobia (Expeditions into the Unknown 1-15) by Carla Liesching; This Is Where I Leave You by Gabriella Alberts; Living Just Enough by Mack Magagane and Kutlwano Moagi; and Loco-Metta by Emeka Ogboh. Thursday to March 13.

Fencing and the Pencil. Solo exhibition by Daniel Blom featuring seven installations that are conceptually independent from one another and function as self-contained closed systems. Thursday to March 5.

C-16. A group exhibition featuring a new flip-book film by William Kentridge titled Second-Hand Reading, with music by South African composer Neo Muyanga; Kudzanai Chiurai’s film Moyo, with new photographic prints from the project in which he engages with notions of memory, mourning and loss; a series of photographs by Candice Breitze titled SABC Minimal; Gerald Machona anticipates his upcoming solo exhibition in Joburg with sculpture in The Edelweiss; Haroon Gunn-Salie’s Turn the Other Way, originally installed in a demolished house in District Six, asks viewers to consider their own role in the devastation of the neighbourhood that began in the 1960s; and more from Siemon Allen, Kendall Geers, Sigalit Landau, Stuart Bird and Walter Oltmann, Mikhael Subotzky, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Alfredo Jaar, David Goldblatt and Sue Williamson, and paintings by Moshekwa Langa, Clive van den Berg and Vusi Beauchamp. Saturday.

Opening Plato’s Cave: The Legacy of Kevin Atkinson (1939 to 2007). Drawing from Atkinson’s underground studio named Plato’s Cave, this exhibition is both a posthumous tribute and an attempt at a greater understanding of the artist’s contribution to South African art. Until Sunday.

Objects in the Tide of Time: Highlights of the Iziko Art Collection. The selection from the permanent collection highlights the changing nature of the Iziko Art Collection’s policy over the past 130 years. Until March 31.

Matrix. A selection of works by Deborah Bell, Stephen Hobbs, William Kentridge, Maja Maljevic, Senzo Shabangu, Diane Victor and Mary Wafer present a range of different intaglio and relief printing techniques, and are exhibited alongside the plates that were used to make them and, in some cases, the trial proofs that show the development of the work. Until March 8.

Works from the Cape Town Triennials. Contemporary South African art that was first exhibited in the triennials exhibitions, then acquired by the Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation.

Many of the artists represented have since established themselves amongst the most eminent in South Africa, and the exhibition represents the acclaimed artists William Kentridge, Keith Dietrich, Karel Nel, Joshua Nell, Penny Siopis, Peter Schütz, Andrew Verster, Michélle Nigrini, Richard Smith and Helmut Starcke.

Opening Plato’s Cave: The Legacy of Kevin Atkinson (1939-2007). A protean and controversial artistic personality between the 1960s and the 1990s, Kevin Atkinson embraced a multiplicity of approaches to making art , and made a deep impression on generations of students at UCT. Ends Sunday.

The Future White Women of Azania. Athi-Patra Ruga turns his attention to an idea intimately linked to the apartheid era’s fiction of Azania, a Southern African decolonialised Arcadia. But his world is one of confusing transformations whose references are Rococo and its more modern derivative, pop. Until Saturday.

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